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Last week some 250,000 Manhattanites visited their newly renovated Central Park Zoo, purchased more than 10,000 bags of colored popcorn. Aware of the popcorn's destination, alarmed zoo officials posted bright new signs which read: DO NOT FEED OR ANNOY THE ANIMALS. $25 FINE. The "$25" was a bluff, since New York magistrates fix their own fines, usually assess persistent animal-feeders only $3. But zoomen felt their lie was white in view of such zoological mishaps as the following, all caused in recent years by visitors catering to bestial appetites...
Under the circumstances wouldn't that annoy you too? T. A. HEMPILL Philadelphia...
...darkling, doubtful Ham is not satisfied. What day is it, he wants to know. Is it Monday? Wednesday? Sunday? As close as he ever permits himself to come to impatience, Noah protests against this infernal nagging of him and God over trivial questions. Such inquisitiveness is bound to annoy the Creator. "You can't expect Him to be a saint, you know," he tells his only confidants, the animals...
...long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters high up in the hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear that he was being starved, Napoleon had some of his silver plate sold at public auction; Sir Hudson got back at him by searching the Longwood laundry for smuggled letters...
...unanimously acclaimed it with all the adjectives at their command. Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...